Mazen Kerbaj
Sampler / Sampled
Morphine
So, this is just all the way out there. On ‘Sampler’, Lebanese trumpeter Kerbaj pushes his instrument as far as it will go in all directions with various processing to produce hundreds of snippets and blurts of the most gloriously weird noise, intended for sampling and manipulation. On ‘Sampled’, a who’s who of far leftfield electronicists from Kampala to Kingston and Ramallah to Mexico City take up the challenge and mangle and twist it any which way but loose.